The MTV Movie Award Nominations arrive hot on the heels of the Oscar ceremony. This awards show happens on April 13th. MTV, even moreso than the Globes is all about nominating big stars they think we'll give them ratings even if they stick out like sore thumbs in their category. That's why I have to admit shock that 12 Years a Slave shows up repeatedly in their nominations.

I thought it far too sober, artistic, and adult for the awards show that kept holding the Twilight franchise up as some kind of pinnacle of filmmaking. It's hard to consider them being nominated for the same prize, much less existing in the same universe. Gravity, which weirdly isn't up for "Movie of the Year" would have been a far more MTV like choice. Honestly I can't figure it.

In some way this is a bit more like the MTV Movie Awards of yore which would give prizes to Wes Anderson before he even had a fanbase to speak of. But maybe it's all merely a happy accident that two of the most Oscar nominated movies of the year (American Hustle, Wolf of Wall Street) are also "fun" and so MTV responds in kind.

I loathed The Counselor but I'd probably vote for Cameron Diaz's spread eagle here. Note: I have not scene This is the End but hearing that Channing Tatum is someone's pet and "scantily-clad". Perhaps I should.

I don't even remember Joan Rivers being in Iron Man 3. I don't think they mean "performance" here but a shorter category title "Best Cameo" like OH, I SPOTTED A FAMOUS PERSON DOING A FAVOR FOR FRIENDS.

Reader Comments (13)

I love this awards show. It so clearly knows what it is with no pretensions of importance. It also astutely recognizes its demographic and caters to them. I'm glad to see 12YaS showing up here because it means it (and Patsey) mean something to people other than historians and film buffs. I agree Katniss should be in the heroes.

Really? Henry Cavill's Superman was not a hero. Henry Cavill's Superman is the kind of guy where, if a J Jonah type were screaming about how he was a menace, I don't think anyone would refute them on that point. Also: Joan Rivers in Iron Man 3 over Chris Evans in Thor: The Dark World? Are they HIGH? As for seeing This is the End? Don't. It starts as guys doing a years past it's expiration date over the hill shtick of preening self awareness and the characters wind up hateful. It ends as an overreaching attempt at a "comedic" Hell and demons apocalypse, even though they have neither the visual creativity (even ripping off the Ghostbusters demon dogs, for crying out loud) nor the patience to set up dark comic planting and pay off gags. For example: Their Michael Cera parody ultimately gets gored by a lamppost. If there was supposed to be a darkly ironic twist to that, it wasn't in the movie. He could have unscrewed a lightbulb, smashed the top half open and used it as a drug bowl. Boom, something that, without additional set-up, is just gruesome, gets re-contextualized as dark comedy through the addition of a single earlier gag. Maybe two gags (Channing Tatum cameo and James Franco getting screwed out of heaven through arrogance) work, but you have to sit through a tedious, badly paced movie full of unfunnily hateful characters (ESPECIALLY Danny McBride's self-parody, who wipes his boots in urine, wastes water to rinse, but not wash, himself and makes breakfast, even though NO ONE should want to touch food that had him get his filthy fingers on everything) to get to those jokes, which pretty much come within three minutes of each other. They should have just made asked for a Roast spot and not wasted our time.

"This is the End" was the funniest movie of the year, but it definitely helps if you've seen the cast's bromantic comedies (Superbad, Pineapple Express, Your Highness, Knocked Up, etc.) LOTS of inside jokes and Hollywood stuff Dude!

A few thoughts:1. This is some light-hearted and funny award show we need after the intense Oscar season. They knew you'll never take them seriously when they have wtf category.2. On screen transformation for Orlando Bloom? Really? What transformation? Supposed others in The Hobbit were not transformed? Evangeline Lily? Ian McKellen? All the dwarves? You mean to say they were all born that way? LOL3. The winners of Best Kiss usually accepted it by kissing on stage, so Best Shirtless winner (please don't be Jennifer Aniston) shall do it shirtless? Now that's the rating you want.

Honestly, the author of the article ridicules himself, because I find it pretty silly to look down on the MTV-Awards. And many of these nominations are spot on as well. Thank god the insanely overrated "Gravity" isn't up for Best Picture.